BLB News

TWO INDISPENSABLE e-GUIDES TO SMSF BORROWING

02/03/2011

As legal advisers to the superannuation industry, Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers have spent a lot of time researching, evaluating, analysing and considering how the gearing law operates in order to advise a multitude of funds and their advisers on how to comply with s.67A while gaining maximum benefit from it.

SECTION 62A NSW DUTIES ACT STRATEGIES

02/03/2011

This article deals with the strategies that may be available using a combination of the stamp duty concessions under section 62A of the Duties Act, NSW 1997 and the small business CGT retirement concessions under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ("Tax Act") as well as the contribution caps.

COURT UPHOLDS VALIDITY OF RESTRAINT CLAUSE

01/03/2011

In October 2010 the New South Wales Court of Appeal held that a cascading post-employment restraint of trade clause was valid and not void for uncertainty.

THE CIRCUS PLASTERER

09/12/2010

A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.

ESTATE PLANNING IS NOT JUST FOR THE WEALTHY

09/12/2010

I want to challenge one of the common myths about estate planning - that estate planning is only for wealthy people.